Eric Kobe

Partner / Investor

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Boom

Seed Round in 2023
Boom provides financial solutions to produce credit and rent payments. Their platform allows users to pay their rent via credit or debit cards, bank transfers, and wallets, enabling users to pay rent.

Array

Venture Round in 2023
Array is a financial innovation platform that assists digital brands, financial institutions, and fintech companies in quickly bringing consumer products and features to market. The platform offers tools for measuring credit and financial health, providing users with personalized data on these aspects. Array's services include tokenized data security, data attribution, and customizable embedded solutions, allowing businesses to tailor their offerings without being tied to specific banks or credit bureaus. By enhancing digital engagement and promoting financial literacy, Array enables its clients to drive revenue effectively while avoiding substantial monthly data commitments.

Hotswap

Seed Round in 2023
Hotswap offers customer onboarding services and automates the export of competitor customer data and assets. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Selfbook

Venture Round in 2022
Selfbook provides a technology-driven payment platform that simplifies and secures the hotel booking process. By enabling one-tap payments, the platform supports all major credit and debit cards, as well as digital wallets and alternative payment methods. Selfbook aims to remove barriers to direct bookings, allowing hotels to enhance their booking flow and increase revenue. The solution unifies the payment process and connects with existing reservation systems, making it easier for hotels to capture mobile bookings and improve conversion rates. Ultimately, Selfbook equips hotels with modern e-commerce tools to streamline the direct booking experience for both businesses and customers.

Teampay

Series B in 2022
Teampay offers a distributed spend management platform aimed at larger small and medium-sized businesses, as well as middle-market companies, across various industries. The platform simplifies the purchase process by integrating virtual and physical cards, invoices, and reimbursements, making transactions more efficient for both employees and finance teams. Teampay's user-friendly workflow addresses common issues such as policy misalignment, lack of transparency, and unpredictable spending by facilitating better alignment between spenders and finance departments. Additionally, the platform collects essential data and integrates it into existing systems, ensuring secure and intelligent payment solutions.

Kafene

Series B in 2022
Kafene is a mission-driven startup focused on empowering flexible ownership for consumers, particularly those who may face challenges with traditional financing options. The company offers flexible payment solutions for a range of products, including furniture, appliances, electronics, and jewelry, while minimizing the risks associated with conventional debt. Kafene's innovative approach allows consumers to return items without incurring additional debt if they can no longer meet payment obligations. This consumer-friendly model is supported by a robust technology platform that features app-based point-of-sale virtual wallets and AI-driven underwriting, facilitating swift payment processing and approval across diverse credit profiles. By combining advanced data inputs with machine learning technologies, Kafene positions itself as a comprehensive payment partner for both consumers and retailers.

Fractional

Venture Round in 2022
Fractional is a platform that facilitates fractional ownership in real estate, making property investing more accessible to a broader audience. By developing an investment application, the company aims to lower the cost of entry and reduce the time commitment traditionally associated with real estate investments. Users can directly own fractions of various investment properties, including single-family and multi-family homes, while also visualizing potential returns, cash flow, and associated costs. The platform allows investors to benefit from rental income and appreciation without incurring annual fees or being bound by a holding period.

Kard

Series A in 2022
Kard Financial, Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, operates a web application designed to help users maximize their credit card rewards. By partnering with merchants and financial institutions, Kard aims to redefine the loyalty industry, offering a comprehensive solution that simplifies the rewards process for consumers. The company's platform notifies users of savings opportunities for both online and in-store purchases, enabling card issuers to reduce costs associated with loyalty programs while providing engaging offers to their customers.

Basis Theory

Series A in 2022
Basis Theory is a company that specializes in providing a tokenization platform aimed at securing, managing, and utilizing sensitive data. Their technology enhances the payments acceptance stack, allowing businesses to optimize their payment processes while alleviating the risks and compliance challenges associated with data security. By leveraging Basis Theory's platform, clients can achieve compliance with industry standards without the complexities of managing data security independently. This approach enables organizations to focus on their core operations while ensuring that sensitive information is protected effectively.

Capchase

Series B in 2022
Capchase Inc. is a fintech company that specializes in providing financing solutions for Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses by unlocking cash tied up in future monthly payments. Founded in 2020 and based in New York, Capchase utilizes proprietary underwriting algorithms to evaluate the quality of contracts and extend lines of debt to its clients. Its platform allows SaaS companies to receive upfront payments for their services while offering flexible repayment options, such as monthly or quarterly payments. This approach enables clients to accelerate their growth without incurring dilution or relying on costly financing methods.

Argyle

Series B in 2022
Argyle develops a payroll connectivity platform that enhances financial services by providing real-time income and employment data. The platform automates various processes, including verifications, background checks, account funding, direct deposit switching, premium calculations, and wage advancements. By streamlining these functions, Argyle enables businesses and financial institutions to improve their onboarding and account management processes, thereby facilitating modern financial solutions.

Parade

Series A in 2022
Parade operates a mobile marketplace designed for the long-haul trucking industry, focusing on enhancing freight brokerage and capacity management. The company's technology connects carriers seeking backhaul opportunities with shippers, streamlining the process of booking loads and improving efficiency. By notifying carriers when their freight schedules are at risk, Parade helps them avoid unnecessary storage fees and detention costs. The platform integrates with existing tools to facilitate carrier relationship management, availability tracking, and pricing strategies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, Parade has established itself as a valuable resource for top freight brokerages looking to optimize their operations.

Palenca

Seed Round in 2022
Palenca is a company that specializes in a payroll application programming interface (API) designed to simplify the sharing of employment data between consumers and financial institutions. Its technology allows for the validation of income and employment information, providing clients with access to workers' personal profiles and earnings. This capability not only streamlines the background verification process but also facilitates automated collections directly from borrowers' paychecks, enhancing the overall efficiency of financial transactions related to employment verification and loan repayments.

AtoB

Series B in 2021
AtoB is a technology company based in San Francisco that specializes in developing payment infrastructure for the transportation and logistics sector, particularly focusing on commercial fleets. Founded by Harshita Arora, Vignan Velivela, and Tushar Misra, AtoB provides innovative financial technology services, including a zero-fee fuel card that is widely accepted. This offering is designed to facilitate quick and transparent transactions for clients in the trucking and logistics industry, ensuring that companies of various sizes can manage their fuel expenses without incurring additional costs.

Vareto

Series A in 2021
Vareto is a modern financial planning and analysis platform tailored for strategic finance and business teams, facilitating company planning, reporting, and operational decision-making. Designed for high-growth and enterprise organizations, Vareto provides a customizable and scalable solution that evolves with business needs. Its platform includes automated reporting tools, planning and modeling features, data visualization capabilities, and comprehensive integration of company management functions. By streamlining reporting processes and enhancing collaboration, Vareto empowers executives to make more informed, data-driven decisions to improve business outcomes.

Momos

Seed Round in 2021
At Momos, we put restaurants at the forefront of everything we do. We are building Shopify for Restaurants; with our cloud-based marketing and analytics tools, restaurants are able to harness their data across all their online channels and use it to maximize their growth. As a result, Momos is modernizing the entire approach to Food and Beverage, and helping restaurants embrace the digital change.

Abodu

Series A in 2021
Abodu provides well-designed backyard homes, constructed offsite, and installed in homeowner backyards. Abodu's mission is to amaze homeowners with how beautiful the backyard homes are – and how easy a construction project can be.

Atrato

Seed Round in 2021
Atrato is a fintech company that provides a payment platform enabling affiliated merchants to offer a buy now, pay later option to their customers. This service allows customers to make purchases at partner stores, both online and in-person, and pay for them over a period of up to 24 months without relying on credit or debit cards. Atrato's platform is designed to support merchants in increasing sales and meeting consumer demand while ensuring that financial tools are fair and accessible. The company aims to enhance the quality of life in Latin America by delivering straightforward and equitable financial services.

Authologic

Seed Round in 2021
Authologic is a Polish company established in 2020 by Krzysztof Klimczak, Jarek Sygitowicz, and Marek Rogoziński, specializing in identity verification solutions for businesses. Based in Warsaw, Authologic offers a comprehensive platform that integrates various online identity verification methods through a single API. Their system enables companies to implement advanced know-your-customer (KYC) processes using tools such as selfie and video verification, as well as access to CRM, SMS, email APIs, banking data, and government-issued digital IDs. This approach allows clients to efficiently and securely verify the identities of their customers online.

Pathao

Venture Round in 2021
Pathao Ltd. is a prominent digital platform in Bangladesh, established in 2015 and headquartered in Dhaka. The company specializes in ride-hailing, courier delivery, and food delivery services. It operates an application that facilitates ride-sharing through cars and bikes, as well as logistics solutions that connect online stores with customers for parcel delivery, including documents and gifts. Pathao has expanded its services to Nepal and currently operates in 64 districts across Bangladesh and 22 cities in Nepal. Known as the leading courier delivery company in Bangladesh, Pathao also offers fintech solutions and digital credit services, making it a significant player in the mobility, logistics, and financial services sectors in South Asia.

Unit21

Series A in 2020
Unit21 is a platform that provides no-code tools and services for risk and compliance teams. Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries. It is built with state-of-the-art security practices by security experts who have defended large systems against hackers. The company was founded in 2018 and based in San Francisco, California.

Runa

Seed Round in 2018
Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail capable of sending and accepting digital value at scale. With Runa, companies can pay the people they serve in any form of digital value, anywhere, instantly. The Runa Network provides a wide range of digital payout types including gift cards, prepaid cards, subscriptions, donations, cryptocurrencies and more. Legacy payment mechanisms struggle to adapt to low-volume, high-velocity transactions both locally and globally, such as sending payouts to gig workers, creators, or sending rewards to customers or employees wherever they are. Runa’s infrastructure and network facilitates payouts to these recipients, helping businesses expand their reach, retain their users while modernizing the way in which they manage and transfer money: instantly, internationally, and free of charge for the senders and the recipient. Runa was established as WeGift in October 2016 by Aron Alexander in London, England.

Kard

Seed Round in 2018
Kard Financial, Inc., founded in 2015 and headquartered in New York, operates a web application designed to help users maximize their credit card rewards. By partnering with merchants and financial institutions, Kard aims to redefine the loyalty industry, offering a comprehensive solution that simplifies the rewards process for consumers. The company's platform notifies users of savings opportunities for both online and in-store purchases, enabling card issuers to reduce costs associated with loyalty programs while providing engaging offers to their customers.

TrueAccord

Venture Round in 2015
TrueAccord is reinventing the relationship between creditors and lenders with a machine learning-driven, digital approach to debt collection. Our technology personalizes outreach to each customer across digital channels, continuously optimizing for performance while delivering a customer experience that builds long-term brand loyalty.
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